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Principal Transportation Engineer/Planner

SLR Consulting
New Haven, CT Full Time
POSTED ON 9/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/23/2025
As our new Principal level Transportation Engineer or Planner, you will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team of professionals and be a crucial leader in private development/traffic impact work - helping grow our Smart City, micro-mobility, TDM, Safe Streets, and multi-modal activities.

The position may be in one of our office locations below:

  • Cheshire, Connecticut
  • New Haven, Connecticut
  • Boston, Massachusetts

We are SLR Consulting (US), a 500 coast-to-coast team of advisory, environmental/engineering, and regulatory professionals. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.

As our new Principal level Transportation Engineer or Planner, you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.

Working @ SLR

With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.

Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team:

  • Competitive total compensation package including medical, dental, orthodontia, vision, FSA/HSA, generous PTO accrual, 10 paid holidays, 401(k) retirement account with company matching program, company paid life insurance, short & long term disability insurance, and employee assistance program.
  • The salary range for this position is $115,000 - $150,000. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.
  • Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement

Responsibilities

  • Winning work and identifying future opportunities
  • Manage client relationships
  • Collaborating across disciplines
  • Public outreach and engagement with strong communication and presentation skills
  • Developing creative yet realistic solutions
  • Staff management
  • Meeting project schedules on-budget
  • Prepare proposals and respond to RFPs/RFQs

Qualifications/Education/Memberships

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering, Planning, Urban Planning, or related field
  • 15 years of increasingly responsible professional experience
  • Professional Engineer or Professional Transportation Planner
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to present and convey information clearly and concisely
  • Familiarity with local, state, and federal guidelines/standards, policies, and procedures
  • Desire to be on the forefront of the evolving transportation planning field
  • Familiarity with emerging best-practices/guidelines in transportation, smart cities, micro-mobility, and urban transportation
  • Valid driver’s license
  • Willing to travel by airplane and car, including overnight travel
  • Critical thinking and strong communication skills (graphic, written, and interpersonal)
  • Efficient, thorough, detail-oriented, and dedicated to quality work
  • Ability to establish, manage, maintain and grow client relationships
  • Ability to work in a collaborative team environment across numerous disciplines

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are at the core of who we are and want to be.

SLR is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, civil union status, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or veteran status.  

At SLR, we embrace diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within and outside our organization. We respect and celebrate differences and want to ensure that we continuously strive to build a place where everyone feels included and is encouraged to be their authentic self. 

We are committed to these values, and our SLR Culture & Diversity Team works to actively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across our people and talent processes, operations, and client work around the world. If you have a disability and need reasonable accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please contact us at careers-us@slrconsulting.

Salary : $115,000 - $150,000

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